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Sarah Beckwith

Sarah Beckwith

Katherine Everett Gilbert Distinguished Professor of English
English
ott@duke.edu
Duke Box 90014, Durham, NC 27708-0680
302A Allen, Box 90014, Durham, NC 27708
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Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Enter the Child: A Scene from Stanley Cavell's the Claim of Reason

Journal article Philosophy and Literature · October 1, 2022 Taking its cue from a resonant passage in Stanley Cavell’s The Claim of Reason, this essay reflects on the necessity of the figure of the child for Cavell’s philosophy and for his understanding of the differences between Austinian and Wittgensteinian crite ... Full text Cite

Imagining the Virtues: Medieval and Early Modern Histories

Journal article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · September 1, 2022 Full text Cite

Conversions: Medieval and Early Modern

Journal article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · September 1, 2018 Full text Cite

Reading for our lives

Journal article Pmla · March 1, 2017 Full text Cite

Introduction

Journal article New Literary History · March 2015 Full text Cite

Language goes on holiday: English allegorical drama and the virtue tradition

Journal article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · December 1, 2012 This article explores the virtue tradition in the English theatrical tradition of morality theater and its fortunes on the professional stage. It explores questions of recognition in allegorical drama by examining "mankind" and "mercy" in the morality play ... Full text Cite

Reform and Cultural Revolution

Journal article JMEMS · 2005 A special issue on James Simpson's new Oxford History. Commissioned essays by David Wallace, Derek Pearsall, Tom Bettridge, Rick Emmerson and Bruce Holsinger. David and I wrote a 12 page introduction for it. ... Cite

Reform and cultural revolution: Introduction

Journal article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · January 1, 2005 Full text Cite

Stephen Greenblatt's Hamlet and the forms of oblivion

Journal article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · January 29, 2003 (Exploring the hermeneutics of the new historicism in early modern English literature) ... Full text Cite

Introduction

Journal article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · September 1, 2001 Full text Cite

Sacrifice: Medieval and Early Modern

Journal article JMEMS · 2001 Featured Publication Cite

Catholicism and Catholicity: Eucharistic Communities in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Journal article Directions in Modern Theology · March 1999 Based on conference being held at Duke, April 17-19, under auspices of the Homeland Foundation ... Cite

Introduction

Journal article Modern Theology · January 1, 1999 Full text Cite

Introduction - The cultural work of medieval theater: Ritual practice in England, 1350-1600

Journal article JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES · 1999 Link to item Cite

Body, Matter, Spirit

Journal article JMEMS, special issue · 1998 Cite

English communities in transition, 1350-1600 - Introduction

Journal article JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES · 1998 Link to item Cite

The Present of Past Things: The York Corpus Christi Theatre as a Contemporary Theater of Memory

Journal article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · 1996 Cite

Problems of authority in late medieval english mysticism: Language, agency, and authority in the book of margery kempe

Journal article Exemplaria · January 1, 1992 Language acquires life and historically evolves precisely here, in concrete verbal communication, and not in the abstract linguistic system of language forms, nor in the individual psyche of speakers. © 1992 Maney Publishing. ... Full text Cite

Women sing the Blues

Journal article Review of Wilfrid Mellers’ Angels of the Night, Women’s Review · January 1987 Cite

Kingsley and the Women

Journal article Review of Kingsley Amis’s ’The Old Devils,’ New Socialist · January 1987 Cite

Steven Berkoff’s Theatre of the Grotesque

Journal article Review of Sink the Belgrano, New Socialist · October 1986 Cite

Schlock up your Daughters

Journal article Review of recent ’exploitation’ cinema, New Socialist · July 1986 Cite

Women beware Barker

Journal article Review of Howard Barker’s Women Beware Women, New Socialist · June 1986 Cite

Communities in Transition

Journal article JMEMS, special issue Cite